Journal
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 245, Issue 3, Pages 265-269Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/path.5082
Keywords
endometriosis; clonal evolution; pathogenesis; sequence mutations; DNA; gynecologic disease; digital PCR; exome; stem; cells; epithelium; stroma
Funding
- Richard W TeLinde Endowment
- Gynecologic Pathology Laboratory from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University
- Endometriosis Foundation of America
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The pathogenesis of endometriosis, a common benign but debilitating disease in women, remains elusive. The currently held stem cell theory posits that circulating progenitor/stem cells are deposited outside the uterus, where they differentiate into endometrial stroma and glandular tissue to establish endometriosis. Fundamental to testing this hypothesis is to elucidate the evolution of both tissue types. Here, we applied droplet digital PCR to analyze synonymous and missense somatic passenger mutations, which are neutral with respect to clonal selection, among six non-superficial endometriotic lesions. We found that among 19 mutations sequenced, all were significantly enriched in epithelial but not in stromal components of every lesion examined. Our data indicate that the evolution of non-superficial endometriosis is complex, in that epithelium is clonal and its development is independent of stroma, providing new insight into the genesis of endometriosis. Copyright (C) 2018 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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